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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 3 |
| 1859 | 5 |
| 1861 | 1 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1872 | 1 |
| 1876 | 15 |
| 1877 | 32 |
| 1878 | 7 |
| 1879 | 3 |
| 1880 | 3 |
| 1882 | 3 |
| 1883 | 14 |
| 1884 | 2 |
| 1885 | 8 |
| 1886 | 4 |
| 1887 | 1 |
| 1888 | 5 |
| 1889 | 25 |
| 1890 | 1 |
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| 1892 | 33 |
| 1893 | 23 |
| 1894 | 19 |
| 1895 | 27 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 1 |
| 1898 | 4 |
| 1899 | 6 |
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| 1903 | 6 |
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3 stories matching style
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:stylus, stylish, styx, stale, stile, stole
- A Sermon Interrupted
A man claiming to be a preacher invades a local church, leading to a struggle and arrest.
- The Street Swindler's Bad Day
A carnival-style street hawker is mobbed and arrested after selling worthless watch chains to an angry Tacoma crowd.
- Shipboard Rebellion on the Pleiades
A Tacoma steamship officer learns that the crew has its own code of justice after attempting to flog a cook.